The Cloud Security Crisis No One Wants to Admit—61% Failure Rate
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In this crucial video, cloud security leader David Linthicum exposes a troubling statistic: 61 percent of cloud security incidents are completely preventable. Drawing on the latest security research, David reveals the most common—and avoidable—mistakes that leave enterprises vulnerable to cyberattacks, data leaks, and compliance violations. He breaks down the top culprits, from misconfigured cloud environments and weak access controls to lapses in ongoing monitoring and lack of employee training. David explains why organizations often falter on basic security hygiene and shows how these...
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Azure Softness + AI Capex = The Public Cloud’s New Problem
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Why did Microsoft stock drop even after a headline beat? In this episode, cloud analyst David Linthicum breaks down the market’s “beat-and-drop” reaction to Microsoft’s latest earnings and what it signals about Azure, AI, and hyperscaler spending. He explains how expectations for a clear cloud re-acceleration collided with guidance that sounded more like “we’re investing ahead of demand,” raising concerns about capital intensity and near-term margins. Linthicum walks through the optics around Azure growth, capacity build-outs for AI training and inference, and why investors are...
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Why the Tech Industry Keeps Lying to Itself (and You)
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The tech industry is brilliant at building new things—and terrible at admitting when it gets them wrong. In this video, I break down why our predictions about cloud, AI, big data, blockchain, metaverse, and more so often miss reality by a mile. From wildly optimistic analyst forecasts (including early cloud growth predictions that were way off) to vendor-driven hype cycles, we’ve built a system that rewards confidence, not accuracy. I walk through concrete examples where the narrative sounded irresistible, the slideware looked perfect, and the pilots seemed promising—but large...
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Agentic AI Playbook Spam: Why “Proven" Agentic AI Frameworks and Strategies Are Not Working
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In this video, David Linthicum breaks down the sudden explosion of “agentic AI” playbooks, frameworks, and branded platforms now pouring out of the consulting industry. Every big firm wants to look like it owns the future of autonomous work, so the market is being flooded with glossy diagrams, maturity models, and “fast paths” that promise cheap, repeatable success—sometimes with language that feels close to a guarantee. But agentic AI is not a plug-in. It’s an architecture, and architecture only works when it matches your processes, data quality, controls, integration realities,...
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Big Tech Is PANICKING Over NAS
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Network-attached storage (NAS) is a dedicated, always‑on storage device that connects to your home or office network and lets multiple users and devices store, share, and back up data to a central box you physically own. In effect, it’s your own private cloud: instead of renting space from iCloud, Google Drive, OneDrive, or AWS, you buy a NAS once and control the hardware, the capacity, and who can access it. This model is growing quickly; the global NAS market is already tens of billions of dollars in annual sales and is projected to roughly triple over the next decade, driven by...
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Big Cloud’s Default Trap: How Apple, AWS, Google, and Microsoft Capture Your Data
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Big Tech says it’s “backup,” “sync,” and “convenience”—but what happens when your computer quietly starts moving your personal files into the cloud by default? In this episode, David Linthicum breaks down a growing industry pattern: technology providers designing defaults that automatically capture your data, route it into their storage platforms, and make that choice feel inevitable. We start with the Microsoft Windows 11 upgrade experience, where many users discover Desktop, Documents, and Pictures being pushed into OneDrive through folder redirection and persistent...
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Why Serverless Is Just Lock-In with Better Branding
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Serverless is marketed as “no servers, no ops, just code”—but that convenience hides a deeper tradeoff: long-term freedom. In this video, I break down how platforms like AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Firebase quietly lock you into a single provider, not through the language you write in. Still, through the glue you adopt: event formats, IAM models, triggers, logging, deployment pipelines, and tightly coupled managed services. We’ll look at where lock-in really lives architecturally, why leaning hard into proprietary auth, queues, databases, and logging can...
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The AI Native Cloud Trap: How AWS, Azure & Google Lock You In
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Cloud providers are quietly rebuilding their platforms around generative AI—and dragging you along for the ride. In this episode of Cloud Computing Insider, Dave breaks down how AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud are shifting from general‑purpose cloud to AI‑native cloud, where everything is optimized (and monetized) around GPUs, proprietary models, and tightly integrated AI services. We’ll look at why this is happening now, how it shows up in your architecture and your bill, and why “AI‑ready” often really means “AI‑locked‑in.” From exploding inference costs to agentic AI...
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RIP Cloud Computing Centers of Excellence (CCoE)
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Cloud Centers of Excellence were supposed to save your cloud strategy—yet in most enterprises, they’ve become the single biggest bottleneck. In this video, David Linthicum takes a brutally honest look at why so many CCoEs have devolved into “Cloud Centers of No,” strangling innovation while pretending to provide governance. We’ll dissect how these committees burn time, money, and engineering talent with endless review boards, PDFs, and politics, all while claiming to be “best practice.” But this isn’t just a rant; it’s a blueprint. David lays out exactly how to blow up...
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Cloud News 2025: What Actually Mattered
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In his “Cloud Computing Year in Review,” David Linthicum offers a clear, opinionated look at how the cloud landscape has actually changed versus what was just hype. He situates these developments within the broader history of cloud, showing which “new” ideas are actually rediscoveries of long standing architectural principles. He walks through the major trends of the year – from the rise of multi cloud and FinOps to the deep integration of AI, data, and cloud native architectures – and explains what they mean in practical terms for enterprises. Rather than simply listing...
info_outlineStep into the heart of cloud computing as industry legend David Linthicum takes the hot seat on a special Q&A episode of The Cloud Computing Insider podcast. In this no-holds-barred session, David pulls back the curtain on the biggest myths, challenges, and game-changing trends that are shaping the cloud landscape today.
Listeners submitted their most pressing—and sometimes controversial—questions, and David doesn’t shy away from any of them. Whether it’s cloud migration headaches, the real impact of AI on cloud strategies, security nightmares, or vendor lock-in fears, David tackles it all with his signature candor, humor, and deep expertise.
This episode is a must-watch for IT leaders, cloud architects, and anyone who refuses to settle for buzzwords and wants real, unfiltered insights. Expect straight talk, surprising revelations, and actionable advice you won’t find anywhere else. Whether you’re just starting your cloud journey or are a seasoned pro looking for a fresh perspective, David’s answers will challenge the status quo and leave you rethinking your approach to the cloud.
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear David Linthicum answer your questions—raw, real, and relevant—on The Cloud Computing Insider.